Sunday morning here in Oxford, England, and I've just come home from playing my morning duo gig in church, where the minister told the congregation that he had met two lesbians on holiday, and was praying for them to be cured.

I thought 'ohmygawd.....'

And, as a matter of interest, my favourite gospel choir is Lavender Light, the New York 'gay and lesbian, people of all races' gospel choir. Read their story, if you're interested, on www.skywriter.demon.co.uk (sorry, haven't learned the blue clicky things yet) but the lady who chairs them (and who uses the wonderful e-mail name 'MC Jellyroll'!) once told me: "if there were more choirs like this around, there'd be a lot less gay suicides..."

All the best - IanB